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Solution Strategies for a Multiport Container Ship Stowage Problem

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  • Consuelo Parreño-Torres
  • Ramon Alvarez-Valdes
  • Francisco Parreño

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The multiport container ship stowage problem consists in determining the position of the containers on board a ship along its route with the objective of minimizing the number of unproductive moves required in the loading and unloading operations at each port. This paper presents an integer programming model for the problem and proposes several sets of valid constraints that bring its LP-relaxation closer to an integer solution. Moreover, it presents a GRASP algorithm that generates stowage plans with a minimal number of unproductive moves in a high percentage of medium and large-size instances. An extended computational analysis has been performed in which, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the efficiency of integer programming models for the problem is tested for the first time. With respect to GRASP, the computational results show that it performs well on different sized datasets.

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  • Consuelo Parreño-Torres & Ramon Alvarez-Valdes & Francisco Parreño, 2019. "Solution Strategies for a Multiport Container Ship Stowage Problem," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2019, pages 1-12, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:9029267
    DOI: 10.1155/2019/9029267
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    1. Domenico Gattuso & Domenica Savia Pellicanò, 2023. "HUs Fleet Management in an Automated Container Port: Assessment by a Simulation Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-19, July.

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